The blurred lines between TV news and entertainment get even murkier tonight with Fox reality series Anchorwoman (8 ET/PT). The premise: Ratings-challenged TV station nabs swimsuit model/beauty pageant winner with no journalism experience to anchor its newscasts.

The Rutgers University women's basketball team has accepted an apology from broadcaster Don Imus for his racially charged comments, the team's coach said Friday, as Imus' wife called the players "unbelieveably courageous and beautiful."

Researchers routinely study the coverage of specific media outlets. With The Tyndall Report, for example, media analyst Andrew Tyndall reports weekly on each of the Big Three networks' evening newscasts. The Center for Media and Public Affairs examines a variety of media fare, analyzing everything from political reporting to the jokes on late-night talk shows.

In a four-minute piece on tonight's NBC Nightly News, investigative correspondent Lisa Myers reports on a lawsuit filed by a top-ranked Arab-American FBI agent who charges that he has been left out of the war on terror. The last time Myers had the luxury of four minutes of airtime on Nightly News where the total news hole is roughly 23 minutes, after commercials was in September.

The newsroom at Al-Jazeera International on K Street is newer than most everything is digital but producers and editors monitor events around the globe via computer just as they do at CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS.

Yes, Dan Rather said recently over a bowl of chili at a Manhattan restaurant, he has heard the sniping about him and his new venture on HDNet television, which kicks off Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT. To some, the specter of the longtime CBS Evening News anchor hosting a one-hour news program, Dan Rather Reports, on a start-up network that reaches just 4 million viewers on cable and satellite is not worth much discussion.